Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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